Noubar Afeyan
7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2021 by Noubar Afeyan · across every show →
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Oct 11, 2021 negative
Afeyan: The romantic 'hero founder' startup folklore is largely unnecessary
“There's a lot of folklore in the startup world, which I'd say emphasizes the role of the individual. There's a hero kind of notion that's created, you know, against all odds. And here we were claiming that conceiving, creating, growing companies could be the o…”
Oct 11, 2021 neutral
Oct 11, 2021
Afeyan: Founders cannot raise biotech capital without specifying concrete technology
“The very first business plan I ended up writing to try to claim that we were going to do this didn't specify technology. It literally just said, we're going to develop instruments that kind of address needs in the biotechnology field, and I quickly learned tha…”
Oct 11, 2021 positive
Afeyan: Moderna tested 9-10 vaccines and spent $2B pre-COVID
“We had tested nine, maybe even 10 different human vaccines in every single case showing neutralizing antibodies, and we had also another nine programs that were going after human therapeutics, so it was a fairly broad platform that had already been developed. …”
Oct 11, 2021
Afeyan: Replaced himself as CEO the day after closing $1 million
“So what I decided to do is I kept talking to people until I found a firm to invest with me as the initial CEO, which is what I had been for the whole time, the year and a half before. And the day after we closed the million dollars, I went to them and I said, …”
Oct 11, 2021
Afeyan: Long biotech lifecycles prevent serial entrepreneurship, forcing internal talent creation
“In biotech, these companies have a half-life or a life cycle of, say, 10 years, 15 years. So people don't do one company after another. If they do one company after 1015 years and they succeed, they stop doing it. So you have to create the talent.”